The Center for Justice Innovation—and our operating programs—are regularly featured in the media. Here is a sampling of the press coverage of our work.
Hon. Alex Calabrese, presiding judge, Red Hook Community Justice Center and Greg Berman, director of the Center for Court Innovation and co-author of Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice (The New Press, 2005) discuss community justice centers with Brian Lehrer.
Featuring Hon. Alex Calabrese, presiding judge, Red Hook Community Justice Center and Greg Berman, director of the Center for Court Innovation and co-author of Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice (The New Press, 2005)
Vancouver - B.C.'s chief judges want to create a new community court that would get the public involved in punishing and rehabilitating chronic repeat offenders of property crime, many of whom suffer from drug addiction and mental health problems.
Community courts have had such success in Midtown, Harlem, and Red Hook, according to the New York State Unified Court System, that it's time to try them on a larger scale—the Bronx.
Convicted criminals could be assigned mentors who will offer practical and emotional support during their sentence. Side by Side is the latest project to come from a New York-style Community Justice Centre in Liverpool where local people help set the penalties for crime and anti-social behaviour.
An estimated 73 percent of domestic violence assaults go unreported, largely because of women’s lack of faith in the system, according to the National Institute of Justice. Filing a report means dealing with a justice system that forces women to testify, bounces them between multiple courtrooms, and leaves them vulnerable.
The first juvenile delinquents in New York City go back to 1797; these were the first young New Yorkers, in any case, who were thrown in (the newly built) jail.
